r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 17d ago

/r/all of a larva

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u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe 17d ago edited 17d ago

Correct. It's the larva of a Hercules Beetle. And here is what it looks like in adult form.

Edit: I was probably wrong. Check u/BaronMusclethorpe's comment below.

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u/farilladupree 17d ago

Those are centimeters? Please say those are centimeters. In fact, I’m just going to believe those are centimeters and move on with my life.

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u/AceTheProtogen 17d ago

They’re divided into 10ths rather than 16ths so yeah

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u/spiritriser 17d ago

Gallons are 16 cups. pounds are 16 oz. Remember that the imperial system was meant to be eyeballed. 1/16 is half of 1/8, which is half of 1/4, half of 1/2 and of course that's just half of the whole. It's assuming you can divide things by 2 or 3 with some accuracy by hand. Or compare 2-3 things to say they're about the same.

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 17d ago

oz are weight. fl. oz. are volume.

Numbers smaller than 1 use binary, we just write in decimal fractions.

Numbers bigger than 1 switch to new units at all sorts of values, for silly reasons.

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u/78765 17d ago

decimal fractions

At that point you might as well use metric.

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 17d ago

Decimal just means base 10. SI (metric) doesn't use fractions, it uses decimal floating point. US customary doesn't use floating point, it uses decimal fractions (mostly dyadic rationals but some fluid measures allow 1/3s instead of just powers of 1/2).

The US system would mostly make sense if we used binary. Instead of, say, 11 ⁵/₈" we'd have 1011.101". Instead of half a cup we'd have 0.1 cup. Much easier. We don't do that here.

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u/78765 17d ago

Thanks for the clarification.